Choosing The Right Fat Burning Exercise For You
First comes the decision to lose weight. Then comes the realization that to achieve fat loss and permanent weight loss, you will need to exercise. Next comes research into the exercise options that you can do. Lastly, you must decide upon the exercise regimen that you will do and then you must do it.
To rid your body of its excess fat and weight, you must address your diet as well.
Experts agree that fat burning exercise has a bigger impact on fat loss and weight loss than diet. The reason for this is that your metabolic rate increases as a result of exercising regularly. You will burn fat at higher rate, even when you are not active, when you increase your metabolism. But you must also address your diet, if fat loss is your goal.
How Do You Define Fat Burning Exercise?
Fat burning exercise is physical activity that you do, in which you exert yourself. Exertion for someone else may not be exertion for you. The more fit you are, the greater the rate of activity you will need to do. Fitness trainers provide formulas to work out the right level of exertion for you. However these can be cumbersome. A simple rule of thumb to guide you on this is the following
- Are you somewhat out of breath from the activity (not gasping for air)?
- Can you feel a little sweat on the small of your back and on your neck?
- Can you still hold a conversation while exercising?
Your exercise will likely result in fat loss, when the three points above are adhered to. You will become more fit as you exercise more. As you become fitter, you will need to increase your rate of activity in order to exert yourself at a rate that will burn fat.
What Types Of Exercise Burn Fat?
Anaerobic and aerobic are the two main categories of exercise. The terms aerobic exercise and cardio vascular exercise are interchangeable. It requires oxygen for energy; anaerobic does not.
Your body uses fat for energy when you do aerobic exercise. Fat is not the energy your body uses, when you exercise anaerobically. During anaerobic exercise, your body gets its energy from carbohydrates.
Aerobic exercise can be enjoyable for you if you like to jog, swim, bike ride or walk rapidly. Examples of anaerobic exercise are strength and resistance training or running a 100 meter or 200 meter race etc. Football can be aerobic and anaerobic: when you see a kickoff returned for 100 yards it is anaerobic, but a 10-20 yard run or pass play is probably aerobic. You will be running as fast as you can for a certain amount of time. When you are doing that, it is anaerobic. It has an aerobic affect, when you exert less energy.
If you want to burn fat, do at least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise daily. If you increase the time you spend doing your aerobic exercise, you will increase your fat burning.
Strength training is a good anaerobic exercise regimen to do, because your muscles get larger from it, which increases fat burning. By adding more muscle to your body, your metabolic rate will increase. With a higher metabolic rate, you burn more fat throughout the day, when you are not exercising. When doing anaerobic exercise, you do not burn fat. Aerobic exercise will cause you to burn fat.
Do You Want To See Less Fat On Your Body When You Look At A Mirror?
Now that you understand that fat loss requires exercise, you have no choice but to exercise if you want to lose fat. The achievement of your fat loss goals and your weight management goals depends on you doing this. It requires a lifetime commitment to using your body much more than you have been using it.
Instead of using the escalator, use the stairs. If you park your car further from the entrance to your destination, you will make yourself walk a bit more. If you have been doing 2 walks with your dog every day, do 3 walks a day. Look for things to do, that you don’t normally do, in order to increase your metabolism.
Now you have arrived at the last step. What you need to do now is to make a decision about the exercise program you will follow and get started on it.
What Exercise Routine Are You Going To Follow?
There is a lot to know before deciding upon the best exercise regimen to burn fat for you. There is no right or wrong regimen. However, there is a regimen that would be effective for you and that works best for you.
It is vital that you make the right decision for you. If you do not get it right, you will not make the progress you want to make and you will become frustrated and upset. It could result in you dumping your plan to lose weight and get fit.
Will your exercise program be aerobic or anaroebic? Or will both be part of your exercise routine? If I want to do the most efficient fat burning aerobic exercise, what type should I do?
You will find answers to these questions and others that you may still have at the Fat Burning Exercise website.
